Training

The Center's training goals include

providing professional development in trauma and trauma-informed care for health care providers, social workers, community health workers, childcare providers, police officers, and other professionals;

engaging agency and institutional leaders in a trauma-informed leadership development process;

developing trauma-informed curricula for students in multidisciplinary fields;

“Sanctuary” is a concept and a philosophy that frames the work of the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice and is central to our training goals. The Sanctuary Model was developed by Dr. Sandra Bloom and first implemented in clinical mental health settings.

As an extension of this model, we often refer to “Sanctuary” to describe the trauma-informed approach we wish to promote, with the aim of creating safe environments that promote healing, inclusion, respect for differences, and positive social change.

Dr. Bloom’s model represents a trauma-informed method for creating or changing a culture to more effectively provide a context within which healing from psychological and social traumatic experience can be addressed.

Some of the Aims of the Sanctuary Model include:

Increase perceived sense of community/cohesiveness through the active creation of a nonviolent environment

Restoring Sanctuary: A new Operating System for Trauma-Informed Systems of Care

Downloads - Sanctuary Model handouts

The Sanctuary Model is presently being applied to a number of settings including: adult inpatient and outpatient mental health settings; residential and acute care settings for children and adolescents; substance abuse programs for adults and for children; schools, shelters for those who are homeless and for victims of domestic violence; and community-based as well as school-based social service organizations.